Trolaan

Trolaan, created by Valerie Peterson Brown, is a poem consisting of 4 quatrains.

Each quatrain begins with the same letter. The rhyme scheme is abab.

Starting with the second stanza you use the second letter of the first line of the first stanza to write the second each line beginning with that letter.

On the third stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the second stanza and write the third each line beginning with that letter.

On the fourth stanza you will use the second letter on the first line of the third stanza and write the fourth each line beginning with that letter.

There is no mandatory line length or meter specified. (Added)

Example #1:

Distraught Blessings

Desire the sound or hope,
deluding minds in darkness.
Daunting though its scope,
deluged now with the access.

Elope into the morrow,
envelope me with song.
Enclose me now in sorrow
easing against the throng.

Longing for succulent prospect,
laying waste to eager night,
Lopsided in neglect,
listless with delight.

Only now will I protest,
owning nothing less.
Opening now I detest,
one more time to bless….

Copyright © 2008 Valerie Peterson Brown

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My example poem

In Sincerity, One Word or Two     (Trolaan)

Don't you now know I love you so?

Did I not tell you many times?

Do leaves not rustle when wind blows?

Devotion I spell out in rhymes.

Oh Sweetheart, never doubt my love.

Other young ladies hit on me.

Occasionally I will sort of

Omit offending, don't you see?

How can you feel demeaned, my sweet?

Harangues are not required at all.

Heaven knows they are not as neat.

Have trust! I love you most of all.

Open relationship are fun.

Of course I only play around

on those times I am with someone.

Otherwise, it's with you I'm found.

© Lawrencealot - July 7, 2013

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This is a form invented by Allpoetry's Streambed

It is a modified Italian Octave  with the following specifications.

The lines are octasyllabic, to be written preferable in iambic tetrameter,

but trochaic tetrameter may be used at the poet's discretion.

A poem consists of exactly two  stanzas, each being an octave.

The rhyme scheme is: abbaccab

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